AUDIENCE ADMISSIONS

From The Guardian 
We look at cinema in the year 2015 and note in particular:

• blockbusters / franchises / superhero films
• independent cinema / arthouse cinema 
• Kodak 'saved' so past and present technologies co-exist (35 mm film stock)
• trends such as the advent of laser projection has helped to overcome some of the light-loss issues traditionally associated with stereoscopy. 
• women filmmakers
• trends such as animation: more than any other area of movie-making, animation demonstrates perfectly how the old and the new, past and future, can coexist. Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep finding a firm foothold in the multiplexes, Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea taking inspiration from the hand-crafted 2D artistry of Ghibli , and Laika studios continuing to blur the line between the physical and the digital with scrungy delights like The Boxtrolls, it’s hard to remember a time when ancient skills and newfangled advances were so intertwined. Inside Out: a possible contender for best film 2016?
• trends such as simultaneous release (theatrical and Netflix) Beasts of No Nation
• for example, Ben Wheatley’s ground-breaking A Field in England, released simultaneously across a range of platforms (free-to-air TV, video-on-demand, DVD, cinemas) “enabling viewers to decide how, where and when to view the film”.

 PREP Write about current cinema admissions (what films are being made and what people are watching). State that you read the article above and that there were trends like those in blue above. Then explain that you looked at Pearl and Dean's audience admissions and that these reflected what the article stated. Screen shot P & D's figures for July, September and October. (link here)